**The downloads on this site are intended ONLY for use by individual teachers and homeschool instructors with their students. All puzzles and images posted on this site are protected by copyright and CANNOT be otherwise distributed, included in other publications or websites, or be sold.

Come and join the fun on our new website. We invite everyone to participate by sending us point plotting puzzles that you or your students have made so that they can also be used by other math teachers. Go to the Add Your Puzzlepage for more information.

Welcome to the Cartesian Cartoons website home of the original Cartesian Cartoons graphing puzzles for Pre-Algebra and Algebra students. Cartesian Cartoons are point plotting puzzles that result in clever and amusing cartoon images when students correctly follow the ordered pairs listed on each puzzle pages. These fun puzzles are designed to provide point plotting practice for students who are beginning to study graphing on a Cartesian Coordinate system in Pre-Algebra and beginning Algebra classes.

The puzzles include amusing cartoons, holiday themed puzzles, and first quadrant puzzles for grades 3 - 6. The puzzles are free for Teachers and Home school instuctors to download and use with their students.

Students are asked to plot, on a piece of graph paper, the ordered pairs listed on each puzzle in order, connecting them with straight lines segments. When completed Correctly the puzzles result in a "Cool" cartoon image. See images to the left.